Ethos Quotes:

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

- Alan Cumming

source: "Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir review - Alan Cumming recalls pain without self-pity" by Damian Barr, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2014.

topic: Commitment, Ethos, Okay

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

- Alison Bechdel

topic: Ethos, Mad, Childhood

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Ethos, Vision, Males, Females And Males

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Time, Ethos, Forget

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

- Bernard M. Oliver

source: Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

topic: Ethos, World, Excitement

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

- Billy Boyd

topic: Thinking, Ethos, Bigger

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

- Blake Bailey

topic: Oklahoma, Ethos, Class, Oklahoma City, Upper Middle Class

Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.

- C. Wright Mills

topic: Giving Up, Issues, Ethos, History Making

It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos and have been a long time admirer of their designs.

- Calvin Harris

source: "Calvin Harris' amazing transformation from geek to million dollar DJ" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. December 17, 2014.

topic: Team, Ethos, Long, Armani

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

- Charles Alexander Eastman

source: Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.9, Courier Corporation

topic: Home, Ethos, People

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

- Daniel Defoe

topic: Christian, Country, Ethos

Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

- Daphne Koller

topic: Ethos, People, Valleys, Silicon

Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

- Darren Johnson

topic: Ethos, Action, Deny

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

- Edward Hopper

topic: Art, Mean, Ethos

Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

topic: Disappointment, Real, Ethos, Containing

The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.

- Eric Schlosser

topic: Mcdonalds, Ethos, Circles, Full Circle, Walt

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

- Frances Conroy

topic: Birthday, Ethos, Age

Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value...

- Greg Graffin

topic: Rocks, Ethos, People, Face Value

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

- Hal Rothman

source: Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge

topic: Running, Self, Ethos, Therapeutic

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

- Henry A. Wallace

topic: Spiritual, Men, Ethos

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

- Herbert Read

topic: Ethos, Literature, Deny

I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.

- Iain Dowie

topic: Thinking, Ethos, Training

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

- J. C. Watts

source: "What Color Is a Conservative?". abcnews.go.com.

topic: Oklahoma, Ethos, Littles, American Values

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

- J. Philippe Rushton

topic: Race, Ethos, Levels

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

- Jane Campion

source: Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Ethos, Vision, Directors

This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.

- Jane Campion

topic: Growing Up, Fall, Ethos

Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.

- Janet Morris

topic: Fighting, Destiny, Ethos, Devising

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

- Jerry Saltz

topic: Art, Ethos, World, Performance Art, Transport

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

- John Hockenberry

topic: Ethos, Design, Faces

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

- John Maeda

topic: Technology, Ethos, Valleys, Digital Technology

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

- John Maeda

topic: Art, Ethos, Design

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Technology, Ethos, Power Of Myth

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.

- Kathleen Battle

topic: Song, Ethos, Feelings, Schubert

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

- Laurence Fishburne

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Kids, Ethos, People, Credo

Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

- Lawrence M. Krauss

source: Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

topic: Keys, Ethos, Common Sense, Willing To Try

I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it.

- Lindsay Lohan

topic: Marijuana, Ethos, Facts

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

- Lydia Lunch

topic: Thinking, Ethos, People, Punchlines

Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents felt that way and I know that my grandparents felt that way and everybody worked hard so that their kids had a better chance. I just don't want to be the first generation that doesn't do that.

- Matt Damon

topic: Kids, Ethos, Grandparent

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

- Max Lerner

topic: Science, Ethos, Used

In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.

- Max Lerner

topic: Stupid, Character, Ethos

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.

- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

topic: Dark, Ethos, Rich

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

- Michael Foley

source: Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

topic: Ethos, Might, Tasks

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

- Michael Shermer

topic: Real, Ethos, Stories

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

- Michael Stipe

topic: Ethos, Rocks, Heaven

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

- Moby

topic: Mother, Ethos, Trying, Food Stamps

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.

- Mortimer Adler

topic: Moving, Character, Ethos

The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos or values. The style of the book is attractively conversational and even autobiographical, and far from current social science positivism. For a lover of cities--and perhaps even for one who is not--The Spirit of Cities is consistently good reading.

- Nathan Glazer

topic: Book, Reading, Ethos, Positivism, Good Reading

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

- Nigel Rees

topic: College, Ethos, Oxford

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

- Patty Duke

source: Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.6, Bantam

topic: Crazy, Ethos, Deny

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

- Portia de Rossi

topic: Gay, Thinking, Ethos

In the gospel message, the beginning of change occurs in the heart of each individual. This heart change makes a difference in the home, then in the community, and ultimately in the nation- and in turn it shapes the future of a cultural ethos.

- Ravi Zacharias

topic: Home, Heart, Ethos

This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.

- Ray McGovern

topic: Years, Ethos, Analysis

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

- Robert Dale Owen

topic: Men, Ethos, Bravery, Confederate

Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.

- Sarah Vowell

source: Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.33, Penguin

topic: Ethos, America, Goal, Dig Deep

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

- Steven Biko

topic: Ethos, Together, Building, Nation Building

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Ethos, Unity, Church, Identical, Catholic Faith

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

- Thomas Frank

topic: Ethos, Trying, Way

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

- William H. Seward

topic: Men, Ethos, Constitution

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Ethos, Iraq, Lines, Invading Iraq, Weapons Of Mass Destruction

While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express their own distinctive ethos or values. The Spirit of Cities takes the reader on a wide-ranging and lively personal journey.

- Witold Rybczynski

topic: Journey, Ethos, Cities, Personal Journey, Physical Appearance

A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.

- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

source: "My Dearest Daughter: A letter from the Death Cell". Book by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, p. 15, 2007.

topic: Powerful, Past, Ethos, Hocus Pocus, Civilized Society

A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.

- Michael Lerner

source: Michael Lerner (1996). “The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism”, Perseus Books

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Ethos, Web Of Life, Interconnection

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

- Paul Martin

topic: Ethos, Steps, Deny

A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.

- Prince Hassan bin Talal

topic: Ethos, Culture, Property

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

- Robert Stacy McCain

topic: Roots, Ethos, Envy

I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.

- Mac Barnett

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Children, Book, Ethos

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

- Adam Savage

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Ethos, Faults, Methodology

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Powerful, Ethos, Fooling Yourself

Economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in past generations in America, was through religion. The religions instilled guilt. ... And this guilt, derived from religion, has been a huge driver of a reliability ethos, which has been very helpful to economic outcomes for man.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Past, Men, Ethos, Past Generations, Economic Systems

I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.

- Charlie Munger

source: Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

topic: Teaching, Independent, Ethos, Keynes, Personal Behavior

So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Ethos, Physics, Economics

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

- Francis Schaeffer

topic: Christian, Religious, Ethos

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

- Lord Acton

source: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.276, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Country, Men, Ethos

What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results.

- Christoph Waltz

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Jobs, Pride, Ethos

I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.

- Philip Yancey

topic: Country, Taken, Ethos, Video Clips, Disheartened

I know this will sound naïve, but I often wonder what America would be like if our national ethos was simply to minimize suffering. Period. To try, every day, to convert our wonderful wealth and national energy into the cessation of suffering wherever we find it. Imagine if that was our national mindset. Well, we can-we must-dream.

- George Saunders

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Dream, Ethos, America

There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Drug Use, Our Generation, Ethos, Collective Consciousness

When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of adhesiveness and connection and sharing of this ethos.

- Anne Waldman

source: Source: logosjournal.com

topic: School, Ethos, People, Ginsberg

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.

- Anne Waldman

source: Source: logosjournal.com

topic: Ethos, Together, Way

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my father's life, He had been an itinerant piano player and so traveled the road with bands and that sort of thing.

- Anne Waldman

source: "Interview with Anne Waldman: On All Kinds of Roads". Interview with Kurt Jacobsen, logosjournal.com. 2011.

topic: Father, Player, Ethos, Ginsberg

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.

- Anne Waldman

source: Source: logosjournal.com

topic: Ethos, Vision, Together

I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining.

- Anne Waldman

source: Source: logosjournal.com

topic: Ethos, Practice, Kind, Elementals

Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.

- David Foster Wallace

source: Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

topic: Self, Ethos, People, Black Humor

In our age of nuclear and biological weapons and the ever more efficient exploitation of nature, the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination could take us to an evolutionary dead end.

- Riane Eisler

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Technology, Ethos, Age, Biological Weapons, High Technology

After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely viewed, at least in the West, as a benevolent hegemon. In the non-West, the US was often perceived as a supporter of the colonial powers in their struggle to maintain control over their colonial possessions, and was viewed far more critically, especially by emerging elites that were more inclined to socialist development paradigms than to the capitalist ethos favoured by Washington.

- Richard A. Falk

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: War, Struggle, Ethos, Second World War

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Reading, Ethos, Pathos, Reading More, Life Teaches

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

- Max Weber

source: Max Weber (2012). “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, p.166, Courier Corporation

topic: Ethos, Organization, Purpose, Puritanism

The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for many years to pursue an accommodationist strategy in regards to the culture, and this has resulted in a public presentation of the Faith that is often nebulous or "dumbed down."

- Robert Barron

source: Source: brandonvogt.com

topic: Media, Ethos, Years

Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity, an ambivalence that emerges from the decentering of the nationalist ethos and that forms the basis of a permanent ethical demand.

- Judith Butler

source: Source: www.opendemocracy.net

topic: Ethos, Attachment, Identity

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which the ethos of containment and punishment now creeps into spheres of everyday life that were largely immune in the past from this type of state violence. This is not merely barbarism parading as reform - it is also a blatant indicator of the degree to which sadism and the infatuation with violence have become normalized in a society that seems to take delight in dehumanizing itself.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: School, Past, Ethos, Sadism, Containment

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

- Julie Andrews

topic: Ethos, Fool, Would Be

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

- Herbert Hoover

source: Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.30, Stanford University Press

topic: Ethos, Progress, Fundamentals, Economic Systems

Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Powerful, Ethos, Community, Social Contract, Rich And Poor

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

- Karl Kraus

topic: Opportunity, Ethos, Literature

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

- William McDonough

source: Source: www.triplepundit.com

topic: Nice, Responsibility, Ethos, Exuberance

I come from a land where the idea of the whole world being one family is rooted in our ethos 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam'.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Land, Ideas, Ethos

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

- James Anthony Froude

source: James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.10

topic: Freedom, Ethos, Morality

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Life, Ethos, Saint

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

- Janet Morris

source: Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.29, Paradise Publishing

topic: Loyalty, War, Ethos